I Am Legend 32 The Raid

After freshening up, Ryth was fixing his clothes when he asked Daedalus, "Daedalus, how many free slots do we have now inside the inventory?"

"Hmm..." Daedalus mumbled as he opened the inventory panel, "There should be lots of free slots. You didn't use much. There's actually over 200 free slots left. So no worries there."

"Okay, then." Ryth nodded.

Once done, Ryth went out of his room and went to the kitchen to have some breakfast, prepared by Llyod and Hill.

It was slightly over 6 o'clock in the morning when they are finally done with their breakfast.

Ryth then told Llyod and Hill that he wanted to train for awhile as he wanted to get used to using his new short sword. so , he went outside at the back of the house to train.

He trained for an hour, making several moves and making him adjust to the sword.

Once he was satisfied with his training, Ryth went back up to the house to take a shower.

It was a peaceful morning where the wind blows softly in the air and the sun beat down but covered by the trees. The weather made Ryth feel more relaxed as he sat on the couch in the living room, sipping tea.

Few minutes later, someone knocked on the front door.

Ryth looked up and went over to the door, calling out, "Coming!"

"Good morning, Mr. Myrad." The guard said as he slightly bowed, "Chief Fenar wanted to see you and your teammates. I'm here to escort you there."

"Oh? Okay, then. I'll call for the others, we will be ready in a couple of minutes."

"Alright. I will wait outside then."

Ryth nodded. He then called out Hill and Llyod, telling them that the chief was looking for them. They immediately grabbed their bags and head out to the chief's house.

When they arrived at the chief's house, they saw Azalea, Lady Elsa, Woodgard and Tregnar already inside the house, apparently waiting for them. Chief Fenar, himself, sat on his mat with his two guards standing beside him.

Ryth's eye met with Azalea's eyes and smiled. Azalea nodded, returning back the smile as well.

Chief Fenar then gestured for the three of them to sit. "Good morning, everyone," he greeted, cupping his hands.

"Good morning, Chief." All of them cupped their hands.

Chief Fenar nodded. "So, I gathered everyone here to inform that we are already done with our matters, in regard of heightening the defense of the village," he announced. He then turned to Lady Elsa and said, "And Lady Elsa here, has already told me about the [Crystal of Truth] and what it can do."

"Other than that, she also informed me more about Miss Azalea's predicament. So, now that everything has settled down, it is probably a good time to help Miss Azalea and search for the [Crystal of Truth]. I suggest that first, you all must go to the Mount of Griefendell on the southeast, from Tango Forest," he further suggested.

Ryth furrowed his eyebrows, lost in his thoughts. "I see...." he murmured softly to himself. "Southeast of Tango Forest? If I recall correctly, I remember this in [The Throne] that Mount of Griefendell was named Mount of Reindell. And that's where the High Elves' village was…"

"Yes, its where the High Elves are," Lady Elsa nodded, looking at Ryth. "I'll be going there with Azalea. Hope you will permit us to join you and your friends?" she asked.

Ryth nodded. "Sure," he agreed.

Lady Elsa bowed slightly in grat.i.tude. "Thank you. Together with Woodgard and an addition of 9 people from the previous dungeon raid, there will be 4 archers and 5 swordsman-healers," she commented. "This is the perfect number to go get the [Crystal of Truth] in a dungeon on the northwest of Tango Forest," she further explained.

Chief gestured at Tregnar and said, "The raid team will go to the village first before going to the Mount of Griefendell. Only then, Tregnar will be joining you with his men from Tango Forest."

"Yes, that's the plan," Lady Elsa agreed.

"Alright then," Ryth said as he stood up. "We are actually ready to go at anytime."

"I will inform the other 9 people to gather at the village entrance." Woodgard bowed.

Chief Fenar nodded to Woodgard and the elf instantly disappeared.

"Just inform us when Woodgard and his men are ready," Ryth said to Chief Fenar. He then turned his head to Azalea and asked, "Want to walk with us to the village's entrance?"

Azalea nodded her head, "Sure."

Hill and Llyod stood up and together, the three of them bowed to Chief Fenar, and walked towards the exit.

Lady Elsa, Hill and Llyod were chatting at the back, although Hill only nodded or shook his head in response. Azalea and Ryth walked together slightly in front of them.

"Hey." Ryth opened up the conversation, "Did you sleep well last night?"

Azalea's heart beats fast, she took a long deep breath as she gradually calmed down and replied, "Mhm..." she nodded her head, "It's the most comfortable sleep I had these past weeks."

"That's good then." Ryth smiled, he changed the topic to [Blue Soul], he explained the other effects of it to Azalea as they walked to the village's entrance.

Azalea and Lady Elsa didn't bring any bags when Ryth asked them about where they would bring their supplies and equipment. But then again, Azalea said that they actually used Lady Elsa's spatial magic.

Once they had arrived at the village's entrance, they chatted for awhile. Few minutes later, Woodgard and his men arrived and then Chief Fenar too, together with his elves, a couple minutes after.

3 of the swordsman were females, and 1 from the archers was a female. Not all of them were males just like the first dungeon raid.

"Okay, we will now depart to find the [Crystal of Truth], I estimate that it will be no later than a week." Lady Elsa said.

Chief Fenar nodded his head, "All of you, be careful out there."

"Yes, chief. Thank you." Azalea cupped her hands as she bowed her head, the others imitated her.

They started walking towards the northwest. They encountered a lot of monsters, but with Llyod, Hill, and Woodgard being there, it was so much easier to defeat them.

It was already past morning when they finally came out from the forest.

They decided to take the shortest route to the dungeon, where they entered yet another forest, through a stone pathway. The dark elves were talking amongst themselves so it wasn't quiet.

Hill, Llyod, Woodgard, and Lady Elsa talked about the dungeon on how to get there and what they should prepared on while Ryth and Azalea talked about the sword techniques and so forth.

Just as it reached lunchtime, they immediately took a rest inside the forest, making a firecamp to cook their lunch.

They finished eating after an hour, and they continued their journey again.

They walked until late afternoon, the sun had turned orange as the sky turned dark. They hurriedly set up a camp and decided to rest for the night.

There was a lake just 150 meters from the camp. Once they have checked the surroundings and confirmed that the lake was a safe place, they decided to use it to clean themselves up.

The females used the area first to bathe and only after they are done, the males take their turn.

Ryth had just finished his bathe when he saw Lady Elsa and Azalea were chatting with the other dark female elves near the bonfire.

Azalea noticed that Ryth was walking towards them, so she wanted to talk with him about swords techniques, but before she could call for him the dark elves girls who also saw Ryth walking towards the camp, walked towards him and greeted him.

"h.e.l.lo Mr. Myrad."

"How are you? It's been quite a long time since the last dungeon raid."

"Do you want to eat the dinner now? I can cook it for you."

The girls surrounded him before Ryth could call out Azalea's name.

Ryth turned his gaze to Azalea with a helpless look on his face.

Azalea, who had noticed his expression got somewhat irritated and just glared at him. She then pouted and turned away from him, ignoring his look for help.

"Eh? Please help me!" Ryth thought to himself, but Azalea doesn't seems to want to help him.

"Why do I got irritated?" Azalea was confused with her feelings, though she was still sulking.

Lady Elsa who was watching the entire scene, smiled as she asked Azalea in a teasing tone, "Hmm... are you perhaps jealous, Azalea?"

Azalea was surprised at Lady Elsa's question, her face was crimson red as she hurriedly answered, "Wh-what are you talking about, master!"

"Well... The other day when you got back home with Mr. Myrad, you seems to be in a really good mood... so I thought, perhaps something had happened between the two of you. And seeing him got surrounded by other girls makes you unhappy. Haha." Lady Elsa giggled.

"NO! There's nothing happened!" she covered her red face, "Ahh I don't care anymore!" she hurriedly ran away from there, going to her tent.

"Haha, she's so fun to tease." Lady Elsa covered her mouth with her right hand as she giggled.

After some time, Ryth somehow managed to escape from the girls. The team cooked their food and ate their dinner together and rest while taking turns to guard the camp.

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The next morning, at 5 AM Daedalus woke Ryth up.

He walked outside to help the others cook their breakfast.

Once they were done, they packed their belongings and continued their journey.

Ryth walked towards Azalea and greeted her, "Hey, good morning." Then he turned to Lady Elsa, and bowed, "Good morning, Lady Elsa."

"Mhm. Good morning too, Ryth." Azalea was still feeling a bit awkward.

"Yes, good morning, Mr. Myrad." Lady Elsa smiled.

They walked for a couple of hours and finally, they could see the entrance of the dungeon.

"Finally." Ryth smiled in glee because he knew the details of this dungeon. In [The Throne], it was a boss type dungeon.

Ryth clapped his hands and said. "Alright, gather now!"